Trump’s tweets came after Scarborough harshly criticized the White House over a Politico report detailing the way Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yelled at top Trump aides for undermining him and holding up State Department appointees. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, reportedly told another top aide after the incident it was “unprofessional.”

“What Rex Tillerson did was not unprofessional,” Scarborough said. “What Rex Tillerson did was patriotic and way overdue. This White House ― because Donald Trump wants his son-in-law to be the de facto secretary of state and anybody going in there knows that he wants Jared to be the de facto secretary of state, so they have cut Rex Tillerson off at the knees every single day. They don’t let him put in qualified people at the State Department.”

Brzezinski referred to Kushner as “the guy with no experience.”

Earlier this morning, Dan Scavino, the White House’s director of social media, called Brzezinski “dumb as a rock” on Twitter:

“Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers,” the first lady said in a November campaign speech. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. … It is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet.”

Trump’s Thursday morning tweets evoke his attack on Megyn Kelly in 2015, when he accused her of having “blood coming out of her wherever.” The tweet also comes after the president called a female Irish reporter over to his desk in the Oval Office earlier this week to compliment her physical appearance.

Also during his 2016 campaign, Trump was forced to apologize after The Washington Post published a 2005 tape in which he openly bragged about being able to grab women “by the pussy” because he was a celebrity. Trump dismissed the tape as “locker room talk.”